Antigoni Katsouri
A life filled with music.
Antigoni Katsouri
Antigoni Katsouri was born and raised in Ioannina and is of Cypriot origin, while she has also lived in the USA. (Washington D.C.) and in Germany. From an early age she showed her love for the piano, taking her first steps in music composition, for which at the age of ten she was presented as a "miracle child" at television and radio shows. She received the Piano Degree with an Excellent mark with Distinction, as well as the "Diploma of Licentiateship in Pianoforte" from Thames Valley University (London College of Music) with an Excellent mark and the right to use the title LLCM, while she also plays the accordion and bouzouki and has attended classes and seminars in music technology and music psychotherapy.
At the same time, after graduating from the Law Department of the Law School of the Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she enrolled as 6th in the nationwide entrance exams, she initially worked as a Lawyer, undertaking all kinds of cases, while today she also practices the profession of Notary after nationwide exams, in which she took the first place. She develops various activities in the field of Hagiography and painting, for which she was honored with the First Prize in the 37th Pan-European Competition.
Live Shows
• Concert "for Hellenism" in the amphitheater of the War Museum in Athens, in front of the Patriarch of Jerusalem Mr. Theofilo, during the international conference of the NGO "Romiosini",
• Concert for the "50 years of the Republic of Cyprus", accompanied by an orchestra, where she presented, among other songs, rare traditional music of Cyprus,
• Concerts - tributes to Manos Hadjidakis, inside the hangout of the great composer in Athens as well as in cultural centers of the country,
• Concert - tribute to melodic poetry by Georgios Drosinis,
• Concert for the "101 years of Liberation of Ioannina", in which, accompanied by an orchestra and the award-winning children's choir "Harmony", she presented a performance of rare songs from Epirus and Greece,
• Concert with Mediterranean Songs, at Half Note and at the Kakogiannis Foundation,
• Concerts and performances against Bullying and school violence in the country's spiritual centers
• Concerts for the Full Moon
• Concert at the Ancient Theater of Dodoni, which was closed for 17 years, opening in this way a series of summer performances, during the summer of 2015. There, she held a unique evening - a tribute to Ancient Greek Music, in collaboration with the famous band "Lyravlos" .
• and many other remarkable concerts. Her collaborations, on stage and in the studio , include important artists including Lakis Papadopoulos, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Marios Tokas, Giannis Nikolaou, Vassilis Kazoulis, Dimitris Mentzelos, Imiskoumbria, Antonis Mitzelos, Pantelis Ampazis, Gerasimos Genatas etc.
Discography
In the summer of 2009 she released her first solo album entitled “OURANIO TOXO” (meaning "RAINBOW") (by Protasis), which received excellent reviews from the media. This was followed in 2012 by the cd “ENA HAMOGELO GIA TO AVRIO” (meaning "A SMILE FOR TOMORROW"), simultaneously with the videoclip for the song "Apokalypse" included in this cd. Then the CD "RENDEZ-VOUS" was released by Final Touch, with Lakis Papadopoulos ("Lakis with the high lapels"), with whom they perform timeless and favorite French songs by great composers (Charles Aznavour, Serge Gainsbourg , Gilbert Becaud, Christophe, Manos Hadjidakis etc.). At the same time she participated in other artists’ discography, such as Dimitris Mentzelos (Hemiscumbria)’ cd called "THE RAPER OF THE YEAR" with the song "A re patera” (meaning “Oh father") (by Legend) along with the relevant video clip and the song "Angelostalsimo" which is included in Panagiotis Kelandrias’ album. In 2018 the dvd single "ADEIA SIOPI" (meaning “EMPTY SILENCE”) was released with the kind sponsorship of the Region of Epirus, along with a video clip, a song against bullying and violence of any kind, which was distributed to schools and radio stations. At the beginning of 2020, Antigoni’s fourth CD titled "IRINI" (meaning “PEACE”) was released, which includes 15 remarkable songs, in most of which she has written the music, the lyrics, or both. It also includes the duet “To palio mou alfavitari” (meaning : "My old alphabet book" with Vassilis Kazoullis and the homonymous song with the album "Irini", in collaboration with the Iranian artist Davood Moohamadi, with whom they have written the lyrics in Greek and Persian.